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Monday, April 26, 2010

Monday Mutant 14: Fencing Match (crosslink)

Monday Mutants is a series in which I will attempt to experiment with "mutant" puzzles. These could be existing puzzle types with an unusual change in the rules, hybrids combining elements from multiple puzzle types, or puzzle types neither invented nor popularized by Nikoli.
In this Fencing Match puzzle, the loop may pass through a dot twice, but only if the loop goes straight through that dot both times, once horizontally and once vertically. The rules are otherwise unchanged.

Monday Mutant 13: Fencing Match (crosslink)

Monday Mutants is a series in which I will attempt to experiment with "mutant" puzzles. These could be existing puzzle types with an unusual change in the rules, hybrids combining elements from multiple puzzle types, or puzzle types neither invented nor popularized by Nikoli.
In this Fencing Match puzzle, the loop may pass through a dot twice, but only if the loop goes straight through that dot both times, once horizontally and once vertically. The rules are otherwise unchanged.
Again, I must give credit to MellowMelon for inspiring this Monday Mutant.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Puzzle 397: Tetra Firma 25

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Puzzle 396: Seek and Spell 9

This puzzle, like the so-called "ring" in which the sport of boxing takes place, is a square. Formerly, groups of fighters would travel around to challenge local men, using a ring of rope to demarcate the site of the fight; even when the modern square "ring" became standard, the name stuck. This is also the source of the phrase "to throw one's hat in the ring", a phrase now more associated with politics, because that was literally how one would challenge the boxers at the time.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Puzzle 395: Room and Reason 24

Puzzle 394: Blackbarrier Jam 13

Puzzle 393: Fencing Match 41